AFC’s Annotated Armory Map

When we got the Armory Show’s map, we were disappointed to find that it was little more than a list of booths, and not an incisive tell-all guide to the fair. Armory press people: What are you doing? After all, as the Dutch say, you can’t spell “art fair” without spelling “snarky comments” (It makes more sense in Dutch).

For the record, I like that Snowman. It’s an absurd, humorous piece by Tony Tasset, and I think a lot of that would be lost at Scope, where earnestness plagues the art work. Also, this piece gets more absurd the more expensive it gets, so I think that’s another point for the context of the Armory.

http://www.facebook.com/ehrenworth Andrew Ehrenworth

The snowman made me laugh b/c a) it was snowing outside the day I saw it, and b) pretty much everyone’s first sculpture is…a really bad snowman. Great post AFC, again.

http://www.artfagcity.com Paddy Johnson

Oh, one other note: Those Nathalie Franks are a strange departure from her earlier work, which was representational. One of her more famous paintings:

They aren’t all that good, but I like that one better than the Bacon ones. They feel a little too similar to Bacon imo, and I don’t think the integration of different surfaces worked that well on the larger work.